Improvement in cigars



C. VAN DYECK.

Cigar.

Patented Nov. 6, 1866 UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEK CHARLES VAN DYEGK, OFNASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

@IMPROVEMENT IN CIGARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,485, dated November6, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES VAN DYECK, ot' Nashville, in the county ofDavidson and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in the Manufacture of Cigars 5 and I do hereby declare thatthe fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of thisspecification, in Whichl Figure l is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section.

The purpose of my improvement is to cheapen the cost of cigars byenabling material now Wasted to be used; and, secondly, in a cigarconstructed in the manner described, introducing a mouth-piece and anabsorbent.

The filling is formed of leaf-tobacco, and the waste of cigars formed inthe ordinary manner may be employed in their construction instead ofbeing made into smoking-tobacco. Such waste or other tobacco is rolledinto the ordinary form for cigars by Wrapping it in slips of silk orother strong thin paper. The

Vcigar thus constructed is then Wrapped in the ordinary tobacco-leafwrapper, and presents the external appearance of an ordinary cigar,While the paper affords the strength required to confine the waste,which would not be the case if the tobacco-Wrapper alone were used.

A month-piece, b, of paperor other suitable material, is inserted, ifdesired, at the end, and secured by the Wrapper. At the end of this tubeand the base ofthe lling I place a piece otco t-ton-Wool, c, or otherabsorbent for the nicy CHARLES VAN DYECK.

Witnesses ALBERT Mousson, GHAs. SCHOTT.

